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[keegs]

Hi

I'm running a P3 650mhz with 394Mb of Ram, and my hard drives are 7200RPM.

I just want to get a feel for what speeds other people are getting whilst doing the processes in DVD2SVCD. Using mainly default options, my computer is taking about 31 hours for one DVD of 2hrs18mins length.

Not doing subtitles or anything, just one audio stream. And I've gone through the guide a few times making sure I haven't got any "Bad" options set that would slow it down. on the main encoding screen, I seem to be encoding at 1.5Mbps, at a speed of 0.392. Is that slow?

A few days ago I did a dvd of 1hr42mins length and that only took 24hours! :(

Can you peoples please reply with your average time taken/length of dvd? just so I can see if my PC is doing it slow etc.

thanks

- keegs

[Matthew]

When I've used CCE on a 2 x P3 550 mhertz machine with 512 MB I get similar speeds (slightly slower). As CCE doesn't really support dual processors, your speeds are in line with mine.

[markrb]

There are many factors that play into speed. It has been posted and gone over so much here in the past that it's not worth going into. There is just to much. I suggest you try using the search for CCE Speed or other keywords and read the wealth of info here.

Your speed is pretty typical for that setup.

Mark

[keegs]

Ok thanks...

I thought that taking 24hrs for one movie was just too long, but it seems I am mistaken. It practically makes my PC unusable which really blows, i wish i could 'pause' the process for an hour or so. Too bad ay.

oh well thanks anyways :)

[sukerman]

Its probably taking your machine 3-4 hours for each pass
so change the default (4) to 2. You'll get a slight
quality drop but it'll knock about 15 hours off your
encode time. Use SmartResize (quick) instead off the
Billinear or Bicubic and don't de-interlace for maximum
speed. I find de-interlacing knocks my performance
from 1.3 to .9 so its significant, but of course if you
don't de-interlace its going to down the quality a bit.
You can find out if you movie is interlaced by running it
in flask first. I don't know if its accurate but will
either say "interlaced" or "progressive" when you hit
start conversion.

[Bob01605]

If you put that 2 hour and 18 minute movie on 3 CD's with 192 sound your bit rate will be about 2175 or so. Once you get up around 2200 -2400 for bit rate, CBR ( constant bit rate ) can look as good as VBR. CBR will save MUCH time on you slower machine. Instead of 31 hours you should be under 10 hours for the whole process.

You also might think about upgrading you system to a faster processor. 550 MhZ I think is the minimum for CCE to operate. A new 1.5 gig machine with 512 of DDR memory would give CCE real time readings in the 1.2 - 1.4 range ..

Bob

[keegs]

Ok thanks guys, i'll adjust my settings and hope it runs faster.

Bob, with that 2:18 DVD, I actually forced it onto 2 cd's with a bitrate of 1400 or so, just cos I didn't want to have 3 CD's. ANd even with 2 cd's instead of 3, it still looked pretty good.

hopefully i'll be able to encode in 10-15 hours by the next time i encode. (today ;-)

Thanks again!

- keegs

[mrbass]

I used to do encodes on a PIII450Mhz for like 2 or 3 months and it would range anywhere from 26 hours to 33 hours and this was 3 pass VBR not 4 pass.

[thebeak40]

Using p3733 with 384meg/133 Ram.

Mostly using 1 pass vbr with TS 2,1 and bicubic .65.

A two hour movie takes approx 8 hours. Faster with simple resize. The second bin/cue is usually 770meg.

I have pushed 2 cd encodes up to 2 hours and twenty minutes on easy to compress material with very pleasant results.

[thebeak40]

Originally posted by keegs

It practically makes my PC unusable which really blows, i wish i could 'pause' the process for an hour or so. Too bad ay.



Hi. I had this prob when I was running with 128megs of ram, but when I upgraded to 384, I found I was able to multi-task again with priority at normal.

Maybe you could check your memory settings or change the process priority for dvd2svcd to idle. This should let you surf etc.

[keegs]

cool thanks ill try that

[Bigbucks1959]

1 Pass? Sounds like you are making a VCD instead of a SVCD.....

I only use 1 pass for testing purposes..

PK

Originally posted by thebeak40
Using p3733 with 384meg/133 Ram.

Mostly using 1 pass vbr with TS 2,1 and bicubic .65.

A two hour movie takes approx 8 hours. Faster with simple resize. The second bin/cue is usually 770meg.

I have pushed 2 cd encodes up to 2 hours and twenty minutes on easy to compress material with very pleasant results.

[markrb]

Bigbucks1959 read up on the forum a little. 1 Pass VBR with TS is a commonly used config for people with slow to med machines since it's so much faster. According to those who use it the quality is not that bad.

Mark

[Bigbucks1959]

OK..What is TS ?

Thx,
PK

Originally posted by markrb
Bigbucks1959 read up on the forum a little. 1 Pass VBR with TS is a commonly used config for people with slow to med machines since it's so much faster. According to those who use it the quality is not that bad.

Mark

[Labersack]

@ Bigbucks1959

TS is Temporal Smoother, it's an option in the Frameserver-tab.
I have read many post from you today, and I have to say that most of your questions are answered in the guides or the Q&A. So I want to advice you to read it.